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Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada (Spanish: Lago de Nicaragua, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of 8,264 km 2 (3,191 sq mi), it is the largest fresh water lake in Central America , [ 2 ] the 19th largest lake in the world (by ...
Ranking Nombre Superficie (km²) Departamento (s) 1: Lake Nicaragua (Cocibolca): 8,138.10: Granada Rivas Río San Juan Chontales: 2: Lake Managua (Xolotlan): 1,052.90 ...
Granada is located along the coast of the Lake Nicaragua (a.k.a. Lake Cocibolca), the world's twentieth largest lake. Granada is the capital city of the Department of Granada, which borders Boaco and Managua to the north, Masaya and Carazo to the east and Rivas to the south. Within the same department, the River Tipitapa which connects the Lake ...
The Solentiname Islands (Spanish pronunciation: [solentiˈname]) are an archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca) in the Nicaraguan department of Río San Juan.
The Río San Juan is one of the most important rivers in Nicaragua, it borders Costa Rica and connects the Caribbean Sea to Lake Cocibolca. [1] The Nicaragua Canal was a proposed project for an inter-Oceanic canal to transport cargo ships coming in from the Pacific to the Caribbean, or vice versa, instead of sailing down around Cape Horn. As of ...
The species name cocibolca is a direct reference to its type locality. It was originally described from Lake Nicaragua, which the indigenous people call Lake Cocibolca. The reason for the name of the genus Astyanax is less clear, as it was not made obvious in the original description, but it is an allusion to the Iliad, wherein Astyanax was a warrior and prince.
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Cocibolca may refer to: Cocibolca, the Nahuatl name of Lake Nicaragua; Cocibolca, the proper name of star HD 4208 This page was last edited on 27 ...